Signia Notch Therapy
Signia's tinnitus therapy, like that of several of the other manufacturers featured above, is available in various styles and technology levels and must be customized using their Connexx software by your hearing provider.
Signia offers three different sound enrichment settings, depending on your needs:
- Static noise therapy
- Ocean wave therapy
- Signia's unique tinnitus Notch Therapy
To begin, they provide Static Noise tinnitus therapy, which allows you to select from five different noise signals. You can also tailor the sound to your individual requirements.
You can choose from:
- White noise
- Pink noise
- Speech noise
- High-tone noise
- Brownian noise
These share the same characteristics of the various types of noises discussed earlier.
Second, they offer four different ocean wave therapy signals that are supposed to sound like the ocean. These nature sounds include the following:
- Boulder beach
- Rocky beach
- Pebble beach
- Paradise beach
Each one has different characteristics, and some of them are more likely to have a more significant impact on your tinnitus than others. One of the things that I liked about these different ocean-like sounds is that they don't have too much of a pattern to them, so I tend to find them more relaxing and less annoying than some of the standard white noise sounds out there.
Finally, Signia has the Signia Tinnitus Notch Therapy, explicitly designed for those experiencing tonal tinnitus. Such as ringing, buzzing, or whistling. This approach is very different from using a masking sound, and Signia claims that the concept behind notch therapy is not to drown out the tinnitus but to teach the brain how to ignore it completely.
Signia claims that your tinnitus frequency is targeted, and amplification of the sound is turned down and relegated to background noise, making it easier for your brain to ignore. In theory, this way, you don't waste your energy on your tinnitus, and your stress level should reduce as you are not actively trying to shut out the sound. Unlike the ocean wave and static noise sound therapies, this method is inaudible. So you might not even realize that you're going through tinnitus sound therapy.
This setup process for Notch Therapy is unique to the Signia range and similar to the diagnostic tools used regularly in clinics called Tinnitus Match and Mask. First, there is a test designed to identify the frequency or pitch of your tinnitus. It works by presenting you with two different signals of which you have to choose from the closest match to your tinnitus.